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Sergia Jimenez's avatar

Your writing is great, but are you really going to leave us with claiming hemlocke springs and RAYE aren’t trying to make “mood content”? You bring up the issue of the TikTokification of pop music, but you never really specify what the problem is with consuming that type of music. I think there’s a much larger issue here that is about the attention economy and attention deficit. I also think there’s a world beyond pop that is applicable to this discussion

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Tobias Hess's avatar

I hear uu, I think I was synthesizing like 5 things I believe probs too quickly lol. This piece was originally going to be just about Rhaye and Hemlock Springs, but then my preamble turned into this. Hopefully my next article about them will redeem that point!! I think you're right that the attention economy is the major factor here tho in that maybe people dont have the attentional capacity to invest time into individual artists/projects anymore, and are thus only treating music as background?? genuinely thx for ur thoughts!

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Sergia Jimenez's avatar

I wanna hear more about your thoughts on hemlocke springs and raye!!

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Sergia Jimenez's avatar

Okay also a little bit unrelated but one of my friends says on the topic of AI: the only job left will be poet (like for AI prompts) and i think that’s really beautiful and poignant actually

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Sergia Jimenez's avatar

Girl...

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